Pieter Devos
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| Nationality | Belgian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Show Jumping | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 February 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Diest, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Pieter Devos (born 8 February 1986) is a Belgian show jumping rider from Diest. He is a regular on the Belgian team and has won team gold medals at the 2019 European Championships in Rotterdam (NEL) and 2018 FEI Nations Cup Final in Barcelona (ESP), both on Claire Z. He runs his family's fruit farm and he and his brother share Devos Stables BVBA. He married Caroline Poels in 2015 and the couple have a daughter, Lisa, born in 2017, and a son, Vic, born in 2019.
As of May 2020, Devos is ranked 4th in the FEI World Rankings, his highest ranking to date. At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he was a member of the Belgian team in the team jumping competition which his team, composed of Wathelet and Guery, finished in third place, giving Belgium its first equestrian medal since the 1976 Summer Olympics.